Disturbing report on Trump's national security adviser emerges on pro-Putin website

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

On Monday night, Michael Flynn Jr. — son of and former chief of staff for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — tweeted out a story published on Voltaire Network entitled, “General Flynn’s Proposals to Reform Intelligence.”

The story, published last month with a Damascus dateline and authored by Thierry Meyssan — a 9/11 truther who published a book in 2002 entitled, “The Big Lie” — previews how Flynn plans to rollback “the big reforms that took place during the Bush and Obama years.”

Perhaps most significantly, the story says the “radical overhaul” Flynn is planning involves the elimination of the office of the Director of National Intelligence, an office created by President Bush in 2004, with power centralized under Flynn instead.

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The story cites anonymous sources, which some informed observers believe include Flynn Jr. himself. Last month, CNN broke news that Flynn Jr. was working in an official capacity for the Trump transition team, but the Trump team quickly distanced themselves from him after Flynn Jr.’s social media posts amplifying unfounded conspiracy theories and racist memes came under scrutiny.

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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/flynn-jr-general-flynn-voltaire-network-intelligence-agencies-494c57cbe831#.yit6niz91

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The informed sources who believe Flynn Jr is a source for this story include, as the link at ThinkProgress shows, ABC's Terry Moran:

https://twitter.com/TerryMoran/status/821345408471465985

DISTURBING: @GenFlynn's son tweets story (for which he is clearly a source) about dad's plans--on a Kremlin-backed, 9/11 truther website.

I ran across Flynn Jr's tweet late last night and posted about it in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028484542


This ThinkProgress article is the first news story I've seen about it. This needs a lot more media attention, as well as attention from Congress and the Obama administration. It's unlikely Flynn Jr would be floating this unless this plan really is his father's intention.

[Jacob Boehme]

1. The Thick Plottens!

[highplainsdem]

2. This just hit cable news, with John King reporting it on CNN.

[DK504]

3. Oh God.

As much as we bitch about intelligence going to far, I can tell you this is a disaster. They are setting us up for an attack or martial law.

The Intelligence agencies and compile as much as they can to go after these banana rethuglicans.

It's time for everything to be 'leaked' to prove what they are about to do. Maybe Comey will release something before the inauguration like he did to Hillary. I doubt it but a girl can dream.

[Ligyron]

4. wake up, this is a nightmare.

wake up America, I mean.

[annabanana]

5. kick for eyes. . . . n/t

[MBS]

6. K & R: an important and disturbing story. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Putin is playing both ends: He made tRump Great Again and now he will destroy him

Putin's goal: Destabilize the USA and render it incapable of leading the 'free world' and incapable of blocking him.

[lastlib]

8. Trump wants power--absolute power--and this is a step in the direction.

This should serve to mobilize all of us to line up and fight the Drumpf regime in every way we can.